Women's Professional Soccer inherits a few players and a couple of teams from the WUSA, which ceased full operations after the 2003 season, and some of those players and teams were reunited when the league allocated 21 players on Tuesday to the seven teams that start play next season.

A U.S. women's soccer league, working out details of a proposed eight-city pro tour, sees the upcoming Women's World Cup as a springboard for a launch in nine months. In most cities, they likely will share venues with Major League Soccer teams.

The need to generate more revenue with the opening of the Chicago Fire's new stadium was the reason John Guppy supplanted general manager Peter Wilt as chief executive of the MLS club, an official for the team's parent company said Tuesday.

FC Dallas defender Cory Gibbs agreed to a 4-year contract with Feyenoord Rotterdam on Thursday. Terms of Gibbs' transfer from Major League Soccer and the Burn were not disclosed. Meanwhile in MLS, defender C.J. Brown, the Chicago Fire's all-time leader in games and minutes played, signed a multi-year contract extension.

The Chicago Fire and Bridgeview officials have moved the site of a new $70 million stadium one mile north of the site proposed in January. The team hopes to break ground for a 20,000-25,000-seat stadium at a 100-acre site in October or November and move into the proposed stadium in the spring of 2006.

Two months into the grand experiment that's Freddy Adu, his effect on Major League Soccer attendance is remarkable and his marketing impact has been significant. Only one of his games has attracted a crowd of less than the league average of 15,287, and the 13,043 who saw D.C. United lose at home to the Los Angeles Galaxy 4-2 on May 19 is a figure about 40% higher than what MLS teams routinely draw for non-Saturday games.

The Chicago Fire agreed to a deal Sunday that would give the MLS team a $70 million stadium of its own in suburban Chicago. The proposed stadium would seat 20,000-25,000 and house the club's offices and training facilities. The Fire hope to move into the new building in the spring of 2006.